Thu.Feb 28, 2019

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The Mythical ‘Right Fit’ Isn’t Just Possible but Necessary

Recruiting Daily Advisor

I’ve often wondered, “ How do we make more perfect matches between candidates and employers? ” It’s a question that’s plagued recruiters and staffing professionals for decades, but in the interest of time—and ever-expanding workloads—most have given up the “right fit” for “right now” needs. tomertu / iStock / Getty Images Plus. While culture fit has become a strong focus in recent years, it entails a lot more than finding someone who simply blends into and feeds a company’s existing culture.

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Employee Casting Calls: How to Build a Video Library in One Day

Rally Recruitment Marketing

Video is one of the most engaging forms of content in today’s world of short attention spans. Videos on social media generate 12 times more shares than text and image-based posts — combined ( Wordstream ). And creating videos with small teams and small budgets is always a struggle. Without the resources of traditional marketing teams, creating compelling videos for recruiting and employer branding can be challenging.

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ClearCompany Named FrontRunner for Applicant Tracking Software

ClearCompany Recruiting

Boston, MA, February 28, 2019 — ClearCompany announced today it was named a FrontRunner for Applicant Tracking Software by Software Advice. FrontRunners is designed to help small businesses evaluate which software products may be right for them. “It’s an honor to be named an Applicant Tracking Software FrontRunner again,” said Sara Pollock, ClearCompany’s Vice President of Marketing.

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3 Ways Top Recruiting Teams Use Chatbots

Rally Recruitment Marketing

“Hey there, thanks for stopping by. Any questions I can answer for you?”. When you’re scoping out a new product or service today, how often does a chat greeting like the above pop up when you land on a company’s page? Probably pretty often. Our peers in Marketing use these chatbots to humanize a company, communicate their customer service standards and availability, engage site visitors and increase leads and conversions.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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LinkedIn’s Worst Content

The Whiteboard

I was speaking with my faux-scouser colleague Scott Burnett yesterday about the pitfalls of sharing content on LinkedIn. Scott recruits for New Zealand’s top recruitment firms, and faces the perpetual challenge of sourcing quality recruitment consultants. Given the dearth of talent, you may have noticed a number of his “creative” LinkedIn posts designed to grab your attention for roles he’s recruiting.

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Talent Summit 2019: From Humanity To Infinity (And Beyond)

Social Talent

Talent Summit ‘s 2019 indicated an unexpected turn for the human. Located among Dublin’s financial district, in the city’s Convention Centre, talent leaders from across the world gathered to discuss innovation, transformation, and somewhat surprisingly, compassion. This year’s theme, The Talent Revolution: Leading Change brought together global leaders who have benefited from embracing change in their organisations to share their insights.

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How to Get the Best ROI from Industry Events as a Recruiter

FireFish Software

Attending industry events is a really important part of being a recruiter. These events are your opportunity to build on your industry knowledge, keep your finger on the pulse and indulge in some all-important face-to-face networking! But taking time out from your busy schedule can be costly, so it’s important to ensure you’re maximising the opportunity at every event you attend.

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8 Effective Time Management Strategies for Recruiters

Recruiter

As a recruiter, you hold one of the busiest and most in-demand roles in any corporate environment. You likely have multiple projects to juggle at once and a lot of people relying on you for their career needs. To succeed, you have to use every minute of your workweek as efficiently as possible. The good news is there are proven strategies you can implement in your daily life that.

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Millennials navigate career based on location

The Getwork Blog

Every generation seems to have different priorities when it comes to career and lifestyle choice. For many baby boomers, climbing the corporate ladder and maximizing income to prepare for retirement is top of mind. For Gen X, a nice house with a large yard for family is often a focus. But what about the elusive millennial generation? This group of people born roughly from 1981 to 1996 has often shunned tradition, instead opting to define their own pathway to happiness.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Here Is How An External Recruiter Rates Against Your Current Hiring Process

NPA Worldwide

Their Expertise. An external recruitment agency is a specialists in their industry, who has placed that exact candidate role time and time again. Their background and knowledge gives them the edge when learning and understanding your company’s unique requirements and enables them to match the right specialist with your distinctive needs. External recruiters work many sub–specialties within each specific niche, so they know the entire candidate life cycle for the team .

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The Truth Doesn't Always Have to Hurt

Recruiter

We've all heard the expressions. "The truth shall set you free" (John 8:32). "The truth is rarely pure and never simple" (Oscar Wilde). "The truth hurts" (everyone). Unfortunately, accepting the truth is easier said than done. People tend to prefer justifying the daily mistruths rather than challenging them. Many simply avoid confrontation out of fear of making others uncomfortable or feeling uncomfortable themselves.

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A Career Choice is a Life Choice: Adam Polselli of Dropbox

ViziRecruiter

Adam Polselli took his degree in Film and Video Studies to San Francisco and earned his position as a Design Director at Dropbox , a tech company obsessed with making work better for people. He shared his career wisdom in our quick Q&A Session this week. Adam Polselli, Design Director at Dropbox. KC: Thanks for joining me today, Adam! What is your official position?

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For a More Diverse Workforce, Hire Based on Merit

Recruiter

Many factors go into creating a strong workforce, and diversity of perspective is a key one. According to David Rock and Heidi Grant, a more diverse team is a smarter team — and a more successful team. As they write in the Harvard Business Review, "A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic.

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10 HR Metrics to Track in 2024

Discover the power of HR metrics. Master recruiting, control skyrocketing labor costs, and reduce turnover rates. Get insights into key metrics like Time-to-Fill, Cost-per-Hire, and Turnover Rate. Equip your business for success in 2024.

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The Top 5 Challenges for Recruiters on Instagram

Smartdreamers

Just for fun, let’s envision a universe where you have to attract job candidates with nothing but pictures. You can place want ads in the newspaper, or you post a job on Craigslist, and these postings can contain a phone number or an e-mail address, but no other text. How would you let potential candidates know what job was being offered? More than that, how would you convey to potential applicants the value that your company is able to provide them?

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10 Top Recruiting Tools to Source on Facebook

WizardSourcer

Recruiting on social media platforms is essential if you want to land those hard to find candidates. The biggest social network of them all is Facebook. With over 2.3 million users , if you aren’t tapping into this platform, you are missing a ton of potential connections. So how exactly are you supposed to recruit on Facebook? Check out our list of the top 10 recruiting tools to source on Facebook.

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Millennials navigate career based on location

The Getwork Blog

Every generation seems to have different priorities when it comes to career and lifestyle choice. For many baby boomers, climbing the corporate ladder and maximizing income to prepare for retirement is top of mind. For Gen X, a nice house with a large yard for family is often a focus. But what about the elusive millennial generation? This group of people born roughly from 1981 to 1996 has often shunned tradition, instead opting to define their own pathway to happiness.

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Boost your inbound and outbound recruiting with conversations

Recruiting Daily

As I prepared to write this article the first thing I did was go to Google and search for terms such as “inbound recruiting” and “outbound recruiting” to see if the topic that I wanted to cover had already been covered (it hasn’t, phew). And of course there is plenty of information out there on […].

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Get a Look Inside The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit

As recruiting teams work harder than ever to find, hire, and onboard qualified candidates in this highly competitive market, it’s essential to find ways to optimize your recruiting function. The Ultimate Recruiter Planning Kit includes eight worksheets filled with labor market insights, actionable recruiting strategies, and worksheets to plan your strategy for hiring top talent.

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By the Numbers: March 1, 2019

BountyJobs

BountyJobs Bites. Employee Loyalty on the Downturn. The Numbers: 43% of workers would leave their job for a 10% increase. That percentage is an increase from 2015 which was 23%. Poor culture is chief reason for declining loyalty. The Source: TINYpulse. Digital Disconnect Hurts Productivity. The Numbers: 89% of respondents feel that disjointed digital communication ‘tanks employee morale, lowers productivity, and impacts customer satisfaction and the bottom line’.

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Business benefits: what do employees really want?

HR Zone - Talent

Acquisition. Benefits packages: attracting and retaining talent.

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LinkedIn’s Head of Recruiting Shares His Tips for Setting Realistic Hiring Timelines

Linkedin Talent Blog

The need for speed. It’s one of the two things typically driving hiring managers, and it can collide, painfully, with the other one: finding a quality candidate. Brendan Browne , the head of global recruiting at LinkedIn, sees this clash all the time and calls it “a universal challenge in recruiting.”. It starts, Brendan says, “when the hiring manager is feeling very frustrated that their recruiter is not moving quickly enough.

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The Genuine Costs of a Vacant Position

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

It’s practically inevitable that a company will have at least one vacant position at any given time. This could be because an employee earns a promotion, takes a job at another company, or is terminated. Despite not paying an employee’s salary anymore, a job vacancy does not necessarily mean that money is being saved. How such employment vacancies affect their business should be a significant concern for every company.

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The 3 Leadership Behaviors that Drive Fierce Loyalty & Extreme Engagement

Nothing motivates employees more than a great boss. Are you developing your leaders? Give them the tools to train and inspire the rest of your organization. Get the 3 steps for developing effective leaders in Paycor’s leadership guide.

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ECONOMICS IdeasConceptsApplications Lesson # 4 Free Enterprise

Geekology

Maybe the most crucial point to hold in mind on paper article examinations is you have a small time period and room to get up on the knowledge you’ve obtained in addition to your capacity to utilize it. You are going to have lots of time to provide the composition your best effort. In here you’ll discover tons of helpful hints about essay writing process.

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5 Mathematics Books to Prepare for JEE Mains

Recruiting Blogs

Joint Entrance Examination(JEE) Mains conducted by the Central Board of Secondary Education is the central exam for admissions in BTech/BE in various government colleges of India. Many Engineering colleges seats reside under the merit of JEE Mains exam. It is also a pre-stage test for the admissions in 23 IITs all across the country. Preparing for JEE is not an easy task if one is not consistent and smart enough with the syllabus and the criteria of the exam.

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Un-Answered Problems With Essay Writing for Students Exposed

Geekology

Un-Answered Problems With Essay Writing for Students Exposed. The basic principles of Essay composing for pupils. provide them with using the framework you require the most when it comes to essay, and they’re going to finish off for your needs. Also, whenever you are clear of 1 essay, you can get sufficient time to focus on the other side essays.

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5-Minute Meditation Challenge

PowerToFly

Since joining the workforce 5 years ago, I've found that I'm often bored or stressed out. I consider both of these states to be two inevitable but extreme ends of a spectrum: I want to spend most of my time being engaged. Present, focused. For the last few years, I've been looking for the right job, the right workplace, the right boss. all in the hopes that that would mean I'd finally have a job I find engaging, but not dreadfully boring or ridiculously anxiety-provoking.

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Specialty Drug Interest Is Skyrocketing – Can Your Pharmacy Benefits Keep Up?

New approvals for weight loss drugs, gene therapies, and biosimilars are on the minds of employers. However, 48% of employers still need a strategy to manage their use and costs. Find out how other organizations are preparing their specialty drug benefits for the future.

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4 Ways to Spice Up Your Time-Off Policy for Remote Workers

Hiring Thing

Flexibility is one of the benefits of remote positions. However, flexibility can also create confusion when it comes to your company’s time-off policy. What is.

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6 Ways You're Driving Your Remote Coworkers Crazy…

PowerToFly

I've been working fully remotely for a little over four years now at two very different companies, both with very strong remote cultures. As a Community Manager, I interact with a plethora of remote employees on a day-to-day basis, many of whom come to me with their frustrations about their coworkers, or just remote work in general. Hearing their frustrations, I've discovered that I agree with absolutely everything that they've said… the funny thing is, when I first started working remotely, the

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Five Ways to Win Top Talent in the Midst of a Shortage

Visibility Software Recruiting

Something significant happened at the end of 2018. For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Labor recorded the largest gap between the number of job openings and unemployed people. While you might have missed the announcement , as an employer searching for talent, you’re likely feeling the effects of this condition. The near future doesn’t offer much relief: more than half of employers say they will increase headcount in 2019, but three-quarters are experiencing a skills shortage in their